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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Passive.
(b) Curious.
(c) Eager.
(d) Aloof.

2. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(b) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(c) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(d) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.

3. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(b) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.
(c) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.
(d) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.

4. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Gunnhilda.
(b) St. Mary.
(c) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.
(d) St. Julian of Norwich.

5. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Theological.
(b) Ideological.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Physiological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?

2. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

3. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

4. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

5. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

(see the answer key)

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